Win32 Disk Imager is capable of writing operating systems to USB media and can back up image files to connected USB devices.
Like Etcher, this tool can record Linux distributions (Humanity, Raspberry Pi OS, etc.) on SD cards and USB drives.
Disk Image Backups
Win32 Disk Imager can read data from a device to an image file, write data from an image file to a device or just check the image file with the selected drive.
If you have any games, software or operating system in IMG format, can do a back of this image file on the removable drive, either a USB or SD card. In the same way, if you have a USB drive with multiple boot entries or you have a drive with the operating system installed inside, this software can do a back of the entire drive into a raw image file.
Create bootable USB drives with Linux
Win32 Disk Imager can create bootable USB drive from IMG image format. You just need to select and download the desired operating system, choose the installation file within the program interface and choose the target device to burn the image file. Either Flashdrive or SD cards / CF, Win32 Disk Imager has support for all of them.
Restore backup from USB device
If you have an image file for a full installation of Windows or Linux, you can use this tool to restore that media to external or internal drives. Various file systems and image formats are supported.
Undoubtedly, a very useful non-portable tool at the time of raw read and write to removable media. If your SD card ever fails, you can create an image file from the latest configuration and restore it to a new SD card and your system is up and running.
Characteristics
- Create bootable USB drives
- Backup the boot devices as an image file
- Restore the backup little by little
- Back up empty sectors to create a full replica of the target drive
- Sector-by-sector cloning
- Supports flashing SD cards for single board computers
- Less frequent updates
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